Running into the New Year! Week of New Year's.

[Jolt]

I went to the Y and ran on the treadmill today since the weather was so rotten here. The inside-back of my left knee started bugging me so I wrapped up after 15 minutes on the treadmill. Then I went to the indoor track upstairs and ran barefoot for about 5 minutes since that was a little experiment I wanted to try. It felt really good and for some reason I went a lot faster than I normally run. However, after I finished stretching I went down the stairs to leave the building and felt a twinge in that @#*! left IT band area with each step down! Really fairly mild, but I am not a happy camper!! I think the treadmill running is probably what did it given that this is when I was having discomfort during the run (shame on me for not getting off it and onto the bike or something as soon as that started). So now I am taking Aleve and icing to bring down any inflammation, going over the entire left leg with the Stick to try and loosen up anything that needs loosening up (I'm wondering if something on the inside is tight--it did seem that way when I stretched tonight--and that's why the inner part started hurting first and then that was pulling things out of alignment and aggravating the outside), rolling on a ball on the floor for the TFL to keep it loosened up/get rid of the trigger point it seems to have, stretching, going back to doing my glute exercises daily, and taking a few days off before I attempt to run again. This is frustrating. I thought I had beaten this but maybe not quite yet. And the fact that the discomfort starts on the inside/back of the knee is strange. Anyone have any more tips?